Billiard-cue



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE BEVITT, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN.

BlLLlARD-CUE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,128, dated January 23, 1866.

Madison, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Billiard-Cues; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will-enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,-forming part of this specification. 7

My invention particularly relates to the mode of attaching the leathers, so called, to billiard cues, and has for its principal object so securing them thereto as to obviate the continual necessityheretofore experienced of their replacement with new ones, while at the same time no damage to the cues is occasioned in removing the old and attaching new leathers, the cues always remaining of the same length, andconsequently never lessening their indicated weight, the importance of all of which is well known, both to manufacturers as well as users of billiard-ones.

This result I accomplish in a novel manner, as will appear from the following description, reference being bad to the accompanying plate of drawings, of which- Figure l is a. view of a portion of a cue having a leather attached to itaccording to my' improvement; Fig. 2, a central section of the same, taken in the direction of its length; Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, detail views of the respective parts composing my improved billiard-cue.

a a in the drawings represent a one made of any of the ordinary kinds of wood used therefor, having upon its smaller end, I), a ferrule, 1 made of iron, brass, steel, or any other suitable material, which ferrule'tightly fits upon the end of the ferrule.

the same, and is made hollow atits outer end, 0, with a female screw-thread around upon the interior of the same. The hole 0 in the ferrule is made smaller at its inner end, (7, than at its outer, f, or,in other words, of atapering shape and has screwed into it a correspoinlingshaped plug, 9, split for a portion of its length, as plainly represented in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, so that as it is screwed into the socket cits outer end shall be brought closer together. thereby nipping or causingits holding-edge It to enter and firmly hold the one-leather! thereon, it coming to a bearing, by its shouhler in, against (See-Fig. 2.)

. From the above description it is apparent that a firm and secure fastcningot' the leather to the one is obtained, and that to remove it in order to attach a new one, it is only neces sary to unscrew the-pl u g from the ferrule, when the plug will sufficiently open to allow the leather 'to-,be easily detached therefrom and a new one inserted, and then. fastened as before, apertures 'n n a being made in and around the outside of the plug for the insertion of pinchers or pliers, having prongs of the proper shape to engage therewith for facilitating its screwing and unscrewing.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent Securing a leather to a billiard-cue by means of a split conical-shaped screw-plug, in combination with aproper-shaped ferrule attached to thecue, substantially in the manner described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this'ist day of July, 1865.

GEORGE BEVITT. 

